Stephanie Chandler is the founder of the Nonfiction Authors Association and Nonfiction Writers Conference, and author of several books including "The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan" and "Own Your Niche." A frequent speaker at business events and on the radio, she has been featured in Entrepreneur, BusinessWeek, and Wired magazine.
Speaking Speakers tend to sell a lot of books to attendees at the back of the room. If you enjoy public speaking, get out there and book yourself to speak at trade associations, schools, conferences, non-profits, service organizations, chambers of commerce, and corporations. Radio/Podcast Interviews It’s relatively easy to land radio gigs, provided you can […]
Name: Dan Ramsey Book Title: The Working Writer: How to Make a Good Living and a Meaningful Life as a Professional Writer (With Practical Tips and Advice for Anyone Who Writes) – Book 1 in the Working Writer Series published by Mulligan Press. Your book’s Amazon purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0718Z8567/ What is your book about? If […]
LinkedIn launched its publishing platform in 2015, which essentially works like a large business blogging community, and any LinkedIn user can contribute. Contributors include some big names like Richard Branson and Bill Gates, alongside influential authors and speakers like Gretchen Rubin and Gary Vaynerchuk. You can locate these posts from your LinkedIn home page. Why […]
Join us as Connie Ragen Green discusses How to Create Information Products and Revenue Streams FAST! About Connie Ragen Green Connie Ragen Green is a former classroom teacher and real estate appraiser who left it all behind to come online in 2006. She is now the author of more than a dozen books on the topics of entrepreneurship […]
While you may think that these corporate sponsorships are few and far between, I can assure you that they are easier to get than you might think. Corporations aren’t looking for a bargain. First, you should know that big companies have equally big budgets. On average they allocate 10% to 15% of profits toward marketing […]
(NOTE: This post is a companion piece to Peter Bowerman’s NFAA teleseminar on the subject to be posted on 8/17/17.) In late 2009, I released my fourth self-published book, the updated edition of my first, The Well-Fed Writer (TWFW), an award-winning how-to about my chosen field (since 1994) of lucrative “commercial” writing – freelancing for […]
It’s not a fad and it’s not going away! So embrace at least two of the major social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest). Share your blog posts, useful content, funny content, and anything that helps to engage your audience and keeps your book fresh in their minds.
Name: Patricia Bell-Scott Book Title: The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Your book’s Amazon purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/Firebrand-First-Lady-Friendship-Roosevelt/dp/0679767290/ What is your book about? The Firebrand and the First Lady is a biography that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist who […]
Publishing a book in the U.S. is relatively easy, but achieving distribution to other countries is a whole different ballgame. Unless you have direct access to translation services, printing, and distribution in another country, it is typically far easier to pursue selling the foreign rights for your book to a local publisher. Deals like these […]
Every author needs to build an email list. When someone gives you their email address, they are giving you permission to market to them. This can be incredibly powerful when you’re launching a new book, promoting events or aiming to sell new products and services. And while email marketing is as powerful as it ever […]
What Corporate Sponsors Want from Authors
While you may think that these corporate sponsorships are few and far between, I can assure you that they are easier to get than you might think. Corporations aren’t looking for a bargain. First, you should know that big companies have equally big budgets. On average they allocate 10% to 15% of profits toward marketing […]
(NOTE: This post is a companion piece to Peter Bowerman’s NFAA teleseminar on the subject to be posted on 8/17/17.) In late 2009, I released my fourth self-published book, the updated edition of my first, The Well-Fed Writer (TWFW), an award-winning how-to about my chosen field (since 1994) of lucrative “commercial” writing – freelancing for […]
10 Ways to Build Your Mailing List–and the Number One Way to Build it Quickly
Every author needs to build an email list. When someone gives you their email address, they are giving you permission to market to them. This can be incredibly powerful when you’re launching a new book, promoting events or aiming to sell new products and services. And while email marketing is as powerful as it ever […]
Member of the Week: Dan Ramsey, author of The Working Writer
Name: Dan Ramsey Book Title: The Working Writer: How to Make a Good Living and a Meaningful Life as a Professional Writer (With Practical Tips and Advice for Anyone Who Writes) – Book 1 in the Working Writer Series published by Mulligan Press. Your book’s Amazon purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0718Z8567/ What is your book about? If […]
What Corporate Sponsors Want from Authors
While you may think that these corporate sponsorships are few and far between, I can assure you that they are easier to get than you might think. Corporations aren’t looking for a bargain. First, you should know that big companies have equally big budgets. On average they allocate 10% to 15% of profits toward marketing […]
(NOTE: This post is a companion piece to Peter Bowerman’s NFAA teleseminar on the subject to be posted on 8/17/17.) In late 2009, I released my fourth self-published book, the updated edition of my first, The Well-Fed Writer (TWFW), an award-winning how-to about my chosen field (since 1994) of lucrative “commercial” writing – freelancing for […]
10 Ways to Build Your Mailing List–and the Number One Way to Build it Quickly
Every author needs to build an email list. When someone gives you their email address, they are giving you permission to market to them. This can be incredibly powerful when you’re launching a new book, promoting events or aiming to sell new products and services. And while email marketing is as powerful as it ever […]
Ways Corporate Sponsors Want to Work with Nonfiction Authors
One big benefit of being an author and cultivating an audience is that you can attract corporate sponsors. This essentially means that corporations will give you money to help them reach your audience. I have personally worked with over a dozen corporate sponsors in recent years and have earned well into the six figures from […]
1. Friends and family: You need and deserve encouragement; let your friends and family give it to you. They will tell you they like your work because they like you. What are friends and family for? 2. Writers: Offer to critique their work in exchange. What you learn from the work of others and from […]
Advertise Your Book on a Low Budget Using Technology by Clinton Loomis
Advertising your book seems to be a great deal when you are low on marketing budget but no need to worry anymore as, it can be done for free with technology. 1.GUEST POSTS There are a great many blogs which are completely based on books and a few of them are supposed to promote books […]
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